I just installed LM 13 Maya / Cinnamon on my daughter's laptop (a Dell Latitude 6330). Almost everything works out of the box, except the trackpad that won't scroll. (Tapping does work, though.)

I thought I would enable it by going to preferences > mouse and thouchpad, but there is only a mouse tab. Maybe that's the problem? (I've seen a solution on the forum which points to this setting, but how do I make this tab appear?)

I also tried the fix in the LMDE release notes (which I successfully applied on my own laptop), but it didn't help.

TIA for any advice - best regards, Daniel

Last edited by dclement on Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Ok. I have an HP nx9420 laptop with a core2 dual cpu, 4G ram, and Nvidia NVS 510M graphics. It also comes with a Synaptics touch-pad. I am running Mint 13 KDE 32-bit. The touch-pad will function as a normal mouse. But gestures do not work at all.

When I go into System Settings there is an icon for Input Devices. Inside of Input Devices there is a selection for Touchpad. When I select this setting, System Settings faults and terminates with an error.

So then I run these commands from a terminal:

sudo rmmod psmousesudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

After entering this, the Touchpad works fine. Scroll, gestures and everything works. Curiously, when I return to System Settings, I can now open the Input Devices - Touchpad selection. It no longer terminates with a fault. Now it says I have no Touchpad. Hmmmmmm. But it's all working pretty good now.

But when I reboot, the Touchpad returns to functioning without gestures till I do the above procedures in a terminal once again. It works fine once more, but the setting do not save after reboot.

Rudemeister wrote:Ok. I have an HP nx9420 laptop with a core2 dual cpu, 4G ram, and Nvidia NVS 510M graphics. It also comes with a Synaptics touch-pad. I am running Mint 13 KDE 32-bit. The touch-pad will function as a normal mouse. But gestures do not work at all.

When I go into System Settings there is an icon for Input Devices. Inside of Input Devices there is a selection for Touchpad. When I select this setting, System Settings faults and terminates with an error.

So then I run these commands from a terminal:

sudo rmmod psmousesudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

After entering this, the Touchpad works fine. Scroll, gestures and everything works. Curiously, when I return to System Settings, I can now open the Input Devices - Touchpad selection. It no longer terminates with a fault. Now it says I have no Touchpad. Hmmmmmm. But it's all working pretty good now.

But when I reboot, the Touchpad returns to functioning without gestures till I do the above procedures in a terminal once again. It works fine once more, but the setting do not save after reboot.

Any ideas?

I know this thread is a bit old but I thought I would answer these questions after having been away for a while. In order to make these changes permanent you can do insmod on the protoimps module, as for removing and re-adding psmouse I have to imagine that this is best taken care of in a script